Utopia for Realists

Best Of: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

The Next Big Idea, 26 October 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 1 min 30 sec in.

Host Rufus Griscom introduces Rutger Bregman as the author who rattled Davos after his first book, Utopia for Realists. Bregman himself briefly cites it a decade later, noting its opening line—"everything used to be worse"—as a claim he still stands by, using it to acknowledge genuine historical progress before arguing that current complacency is still inexcusable.

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